Canadian Federal Election

[Tvisforme]

Originally Posted by Hecate

Maybe carney should have brought back parliament before galavanting around the world meeting with leaders. Maybe he should call an election and become an elected member of the house so he can actually do his job...

No matter how many times people repeat the above, it doesn't change the fact that Mr Carney is the Prime Minister. It will be better when Parliament is in session and he has a seat, yes, but the PM still gets to do PM things in the interim. Visiting other countries on a tight schedule to work on expanding trade and defence agreements is not what anyone would rationally consider "galavanting".

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by Hecate

Maybe carney should have brought back parliament before galavanting around the world meeting with leaders. Maybe he should call an election and become an elected member of the house so he can actually do his job.

Decades of government neglect on a national historic site… what a surprise.

At the same time I call 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 on it costing $42 million to fix.

Not sure for what purpose he'd recall Parliament. He is about to call the election, although not being an elected MP does not prevent him from doing his job.

I agree re the $42million. Whether they repair or replace, the total cost will be much higher than that.

[JakeLRS]

Mark Carney has flip flopped so many policies in the last week he's been prime minister.

If he doesn't want to lose the electorate, he needs to tighten up.

He can sell whatever he wants to Canadians, such as taking the "concepts of a plan" PP has, but if he keeps flip flopping, he'll continue to lose credibility.

We have only scratched the surface of what the PM will do and the very few tests he's had, they haven't really gone well. Journalists will not treat him nicely once the campaign starts.

He can do all the PR he wants, but this election will be a closely watched election.

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by BlackDog204

"I think Premier Smith's demands are very reasonable," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says when asked about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's demands for the next federal govt, which she warns if not met could lead to "an unprecedented national unity crisis."

https://x.com/CPAC_TV/status/1903103863206367426

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If I didn't know any better, I would swear that PP is deliberately trying to lose the election. Smith has established herself as a Quisling, and is extremely unpopular everywhere in Canada, including Alberta.

There is also an ongoing RCMP investigations, dealing with UCP corruption.

What an absolute hand grenade smith threw Pierre. Like he needs more votes in Alberta. Now he has to defend unconstitutional demands that he agrees with to people in Ontario and Quebec.

Who did she think she was helping with that list?

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by JakeLRS

Mark Carney has flip flopped so many policies in the last week he's been prime minister.

If he doesn't want to lose the electorate, he needs to tighten up.

He can sell whatever he wants to Canadians, such as taking the "concepts of a plan" PP has, but if he keeps flip flopping, he'll continue to lose credibility.

We have only scratched the surface of what the PM will do and the very few tests he's had, they haven't really gone well. Journalists will not treat him nicely once the campaign starts.

He can do all the PR he wants, but this election will be a closely watched election.

Not sure what policy flip flops you mean. So far, he has shown himself to be not at all intimidated by the journos. All signs are positive, istm, but we now have to see what kind of a campaigner he is.

[dreambrother808]

Originally Posted by JakeLRS

Mark Carney has flip flopped so many policies in the last week he's been prime minister.

If he doesn't want to lose the electorate, he needs to tighten up.

He can sell whatever he wants to Canadians, such as taking the "concepts of a plan" PP has, but if he keeps flip flopping, he'll continue to lose credibility.

We have only scratched the surface of what the PM will do and the very few tests he's had, they haven't really gone well. Journalists will not treat him nicely once the campaign starts.

He can do all the PR he wants, but this election will be a closely watched election.

Flip flop? Do you think Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau are the same person? That’s the only possible “logic” in your argument, that somehow Mark Carney charting his own path with Liberal policy is somehow changing the mind he shares with JT.

[dreambrother808]

Originally Posted by trueviking

What an absolute hand grenade smith threw Pierre. Like he needs more votes in Alberta. Now he has to defend unconstitutional demands that he agrees with to people in Ontario and Quebec.

Who did she think she was helping with that list?

It’s like Trump; when you’re lost so deep in the conservative sauce, surrounded by your echo chamber, you can’t see the extremism of your views.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by Hackslack

Doing something right? They are running on the conservative platform! Libs are buying it too.

Buying it?

Blue Liberals win all the time. It's like they want a few of the good ideas without the CPC crazy. Seems pretty normal to me.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by elly63

Judging from the zealotry of the far left posts here, I would say the opposite, which is odd because I think Carney will win more than it seems you guys do.

You guys post as if politics were part of your self esteem. Do you guys have to guzzle all the KoolAid?

Pot meet kettle.

[dreambrother808]

Originally Posted by elly63

Judging from the zealotry of the far left posts here, I would say the opposite, which is odd because I think Carney will win more than it seems you guys do.

You guys post as if politics were part of your self esteem. Do you guys have to guzzle all the KoolAid?

People from the far left post here? Or Carney is far left?

Both sound ridiculous. No one from the far left is wasting their time posting in these forums. They would hate all of this centrist 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by dreambrother808

People from the far left post here? Or Carney is far left?

Both sound ridiculous. No one from the far left is wasting their time posting in these forums. They would hate all of this centrist 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵.

Carney is a socialist... remember?

[elly63]

If you guys are Liberal, I'm Pierre Trudeau

[elly63]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Pot meet kettle.

I can criticize Pierre and Danielle, Conservatives no problem. For most of the leftists here, criticizing Liberals would be like removing a kidney, they are so indoctrinated.

[MolsonExport]

Judging from the zealotry of the far left posts here

Who? Where are these people? What threads are they in?

Very, very few people here are "far left". I know people that are "far left", and they are not at all well represented in this forum. I'd say about half of the regular posters in here are centrists (so-called "liberals", if you will). Perhaps 30% lean to the right. 10% are alt-right. Maybe 5% (probably less) are "far leftists". The other five percent are apolitical.

As for myself, I've been a social liberal, fiscal conservative, most of my entire life. I mostly vote liberal at the federal level, but I have voted conservative. Once, I voted NDP.

[YOWetal]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Carney is a socialist... remember?

But stole the Conservative platform.

[Hackslack]

Carney, premiers seeking plan for national energy, trade corridor

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...plan-for-national-energy-trade-corridor/

Love this!

Love it too that all the Liberal supporters are finally supporting this too! Times sure have changed! Hasn’t anyone thought about climate change though!!!

And the $200 million announced today to further expand development of Canada’s nat gas industry and LNG exports. Awesome work.

Lol. Thanks Lib supporters for getting this man elected and furthering the Country’s best interest to develop oil and gas to reach the global market!

[Gresto]

Take this from a leftist: My strong suspicion is that the overwhelming majority of pro-Liberal comments here are from relative moderates; most likely socially liberal and fiscally conservative, for that's how it usually goes. Why is that my suspicion? Because otherwise there would be much more (or any, really) talk of the NDP or Greens, which, as everyone knows, are parties leftward of the Liberals.
By the same token, I haven't read many baldly Dump-like loony-right comments from the conservatives here. There's just a lot of two-way partisanship.

[Hackslack]

Carney seriously has peaked my interest in voting Lib, after these two announcements today 1) investing $200 million in Canada LNG, and 2) building a trans national energy corridor. Both of which supports the development of AB’s primary industry, O & G. (2 other platform points Poilievre is running on too……)

To think that all Lib supporters, pro-Carney supporters here are also in agreement with his decisions, well this is great.

It wasn’t long ago we used to have our differences here, but now that the Libs are completely changing their tune and you support that. This is great. Let’s continue to build out Canadas oil sands and nat gas, Canada will be better for it, under Carney’s leadership.

Either Cons or Libs, it sounds like AB’s Canada’s O&G is finally going to be produced and distributed to its potential.

[elly63]

Originally Posted by elly63

In all seriousness I think Carney has Trump's number. Just ignore. I'm wondering if we should even counter tariff, just buy Canadian, and mobilize the boycotts (but not officially).

The Trump backlash in the US is likely to coalesce quickly, helping us out.

No kidding, this just came up in my recommended videos

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[Djeffery]

Originally Posted by Hecate

Pierre will destroy carney in the debates and we’ll probably end up with a conservative minority. According to angus read about half of the liberals support now is soft, so not fully committed voters.

Poilievre will come across whiny, annoying and grating, Carney will intelligent, calm and probably condescending. PP is not destroying Carney in any head to head.